''Witness'' is a 2022 Indian Tamil-language drama film directed by Deepak. The film stars

Shraddha Srinath Shraddha Rama Srinath known Professionally as Shraddha Srinath (born 29 September 1990) is an Indian actress who predominantly appears in Tamil, Kannada and Telugu films. She debuted with the Malayalam film '' Kohinoor'' and gained wide acclai ...

and Rohini in leading roles. It was released on 9 December 2022 in Sony LIV.

Cast

as Parvathy * Rohini as Indrani *Subatra Robert *

Azhagam Perumal Azhagam Perumal is an Indian film director and actor. Career Azhagam Perumal hails from the village of Kulasekharapuram in Kanyakumari District, Tamil Nadu. All his family members were working in the government service and his parents wanted h ...

Shanmugarajan Shanmugarajan is an Indian actor who appears in Tamil films. He is an alumnus of The American College in Madurai and National School of Drama National School of Drama (NSD) is a theatre training institute situated at New Delhi, India. It i ...

as Sivaprakasam *G. Selva as Petharaj *Rajeev Anand *Thamizharasan as Parthiban * Sumathi G. as Indrani's colleague

Production

The shoot of the film was completed by December 2021, with the title revealed in May 2022.

Reception

The film was released on

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on 9 December 2022. A critic from ''

The Hindu ''The Hindu'' is an Indian English-language daily newspaper owned by The Hindu Group, headquartered in Chennai, Tamil Nadu. It began as a weekly in 1878 and became a daily in 1889. It is one of the Indian newspapers of record and the secon ...

'' gave the film a positive review noting it was "a powerful anti-caste film that doesn’t pull any punches" and that "through powerful storytelling, debutant director Deepak and writer Muthuvel’s film raises important questions and shows the sheer savagery that we, the collective society, are ‘witness’ to". A reviewer from ''

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'' called it "a hard-hitting social drama on the horrors of manual scavenging". A critic from ''

The New Indian Express ''The New Indian Express'' is an Indian English-language broadsheet daily newspaper published by the Chennai-based Express Publications. It was founded in 1932 as ''The Indian Express'', under the ownership of Chennai-based P. Varadarajulu Naid ...

'' wrote that "''Witness'' will be long remembered for the kind of conversations the women have in the film".

References

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* 2022 films 2020s Tamil-language films 2020s Indian films Indian drama films 2022 directorial debut films Films about social issues in India SonyLIV original films Films about discrimination Films about the caste system in India Indian legal drama films Films about the working class {{2020s-Tamil-film-stub